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Africa News Tonight: Debt relief on G20 finance ministers’ agenda, US risks losing business in Africa, MSF closes operations in Sudan camp


Africa News Tonight: Debt relief on G20 finance ministers’ agenda, US risks losing business in Africa, MSF closes operations in Sudan camp
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South Africa plans to make sure that debt relief for the continent is high on the agenda at the meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors going on in Cape Town. An expert warms that without effective tools to support U.S. companies, the United States risks losing out commercially in the African market to China and the emerging “middle powers”. Increased attacks and fighting have forced Doctors Without Borders – or Médecins Sans Frontières – to stop providing medical assistance in the huge Zamzam camp for displaced persons near El Fasher in Sudan's North Darfur region.

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